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With a variety of new wireless wares coming to market over the next few months, solution providers have more choices than ever when it comes to finding the best WLAN infrastructure for their customers.

Wireless LAN vendors will be out in full force at this week's Interop Las Vegas 2007, evidence that a market that seemed to be heading toward commoditization is still ripe for profit for solution providers.

This interactive learning event will examine the changing role of the IP network (particularly the WAN portion) in every company's communications strategy, especially midmarket and enterprise accounts, and how VARs and network integrators can be involved in all facets of the discussion.

Though solution providers say 10-Gigabit Ethernet remains a specialized niche at this point, the technology continues to gain ground as more and more businesses upgrade their network backbone. Here's a quick look at some 10G vendors and their products, plus some channel information.

If, like us, you are looking to move very large files (elephants) over the Internet (mouse trails) easily, securely and effortlessly, there are a lot of secure alternatives to the FTP server, says Darrel Bowman of solution provider AppTech.